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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The blurring of an image that occurs when light from the margin of a lens or mirror with a spherical surface comes to a shorter focus than light from the central portion.
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- noun optics A type of
lens aberration which causesblurriness , particularly away from the centre of the lens.
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- noun an optical aberration resulting in a distorted image
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